Introducing WordPress.com Insights
This project is pretty technical and niche, so won’t apply to most of the people who will see this, but it was a fun project to work on and it turned out really nicely. I am proud of my coworkers and I who worked hard on this. I am excited to see developers working on our platform. Hopefully this encourages more usage of the WordPress.com developer APIs.
We love stats at Automattic. They’re key to understanding our users, and a driving force behind a lot of what we do.
When we make a change, we measure its impact and use the metrics to make data-informed decisions. For example, we recently improved how our Publicized posts look on other services. Using our own data as well as data provided by our partners, we made further improvements and tweaks to increase click throughs to your posts.
Our partners and those building on our platform should have the same ability. That’s why we spent the past few weeks creating tool to support them: WordPress.com Insights.
Check it out in the short video below:
Music Credit: Anthony Vitale
Insights provides data and graphs for a variety of metrics: Connections/authorizations, API calls, API errors, posts published, WordPress.com Connect Logins, and the reach of posts published from your app. By exposing this…
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Joey Kudish 